Hi,
seeing as there's a "recommend a good movie"-thread then why not a TV-thread :)
I'm currently rewatching Veep, it's about the vice president of the USA and hers and her staffs antics. I would say it's a good show, easy to watch.
What shows are you currently watching?
I have plenty:
Classics:
The Sopranos
Lost
House
Dexter
The wire
The shield
Fringe
24
Breaking bad
The mentalist
Spartacus
Mad men
White collar
These are all done and dusted. I might add some of my favourites ongoing ones later...
Let me know if I have forgotten some
Peaky Blinders
Wentworth
The Jinx (Robert Durst Documentry)
Netflicks
Narcos
House of cards
Better call Saul
Orange is the new black
Code Black
Supervet - new series this coming Tuesday
Game of Thrones
Band of Brothers
True Detective (series 1)
Utopia
Vikings is worth a look.
Agree with most of these and most of the good shows have been covered. Also
Boardwalk empire
Jessica jones
30 rock
Parks and recreation
Son of Anarchy
I guess the fact that I really don't watch much TV explains why so far in the listed programs the only ones I've seen are:
Supervet - inspirational
Band of Brothers - iconic and humbling
I'd like to recommend:
Colditz documentary from 10/15 years ago (culminated in a replica of the glider being flown)
Clarkson's documentary on Maj Robert Cain (available on YouTube)
Atom - from 2014
Longitude - Horizon Special from 1999
i guess not really much help but I watch almost no fictional stuff.
Sopranos and The Wire are two of my favorite shows, HBO really knows what they're doing.Originally Posted by Deckard81
I've heard good things about Peaky Blinders, I'll have to put it on my watchlist.
Netflix, like HBO, knows what they're doing. All great shows (not so much Orange... IMO, though).
Vikings is great, can't wait for the next season to start :)
Boardwalk is a great show, especially the last season (if memory serves me right)
Ripper Street - originally BBC but picked up by Amazon now.
Homeland, series 1 and 2 are excellent, 3 and 4 are ok.
Blacklist series 1 was good, series 2 dragged on a bit, yet to start S3.
Banshee - really loved that, season 4 (final season) out this summer.
Just finished watching Odyssey, which was naff in places but enjoyable enough overall.
I can't really explain why but i have enjoyed The Last Ship.
Humans was quite interesting.
The latest Dr Jekyl was good too.
As above, Blacklist was good but getting a bit "samey" as it moves on.
Homeland - forgot about that. Great show and I really enjoyed season 5, I thought it went a bit off in season 3 but found its way again. Damian Lewis is a great actor as is Claire Danes, she does mental really well.
The best show ever in my opinion is the The West Wing.
Current easy to watch comedies we enjoy:
Brooklyn Nine-nine
Last man on earth
Fresh off the boat
The League (wife hates this, apparently they're too rude to each other)
The Grinder
Modern Family
The Big Bang Theory
Narcos is brilliant - on netflix, i watched it all in about 7 days
I also think Sons Of Anarchy is really good. Not watched them all up to season 3.
Ash V The Evil Dead……..
stunning and Lucy Lawless as well
Gold Rush,on Quest I believe, I can't get enough of this programme all about a bunch of guys who set out to Alaska to start up a gold mining operation, it's only on once a week here I later found it has been running since 2011/12 ish, now managed to find all the seasons from 1 to 6 via the android box, watched four yesterday, the beauty is there's no adverts to watch either.
Spin - sub titled French political drama on More 4
Andy
Wanted - Damasko DC57
I like that too. There's also 'Gold Divers'.
I watched quite a few of these, but further down the line a lot of the events started to look a bit staged to me, kind of gave up after that.
Californication if you want something funny and tittilating its on Netflix at the mo also Sons of Anarchy, Breaking Bad all very good.
Can't believe that there has been no mention for Twin Peaks. The finest TV show ever made.
Would have suggested quite a few that have been mentioned already. Here's one we discovered last Xmas when we both had flu, did about 35 episodes in a week!
Justified, on sky box sets. US Marshall who gets posted back to his hillBilly roots after one too many 'justified' shootings.
Not too heavy but quite good tv.
Cenk Batu
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/c...mand/62626-001
Deutschland 83
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/deutschland-83
Watched em all, very good TV, Raylan is great.
Daredevil - not a comic fan? Still watch it it's more a crime action drama than comic or at least a very realistic one.
Jessica Jones... same world setting but adult orientated too.
Narcos as said already.
Man In The High Castle - alternate reality where Japan and Germany won WWII - not as strange as the book and entertaining .
Not finished it yet but Bloodlines is promising dark family drama
Something that SWMBO won't mind as well as is The Affair...
(Wire fans get Dominic West again here in good form, Ruth Taylor nude everyone a winner then)
seriously not my usual fare but it's excellent and very cleverly told tale of betrayal and a murder in there and each half of an episode is told from 2 characters viewpoint which doesn't quite tally with each other's memories so who is telling the truth?
Slightly more corny comic stuff is Arrow great fun and eye candy and the Flash which is a bit lighter still and great superhero fun too... Gotham I don't mind - Supergirl is a bit teen audience but harmless popcorn...
Not watched the murderer documentary yet but getting rave reviews too....
and I'm 5 episodes into Blindspot where a naked Jaime Alexander (Sif in Thor) is discovered drugged in a hold-all in Times Square with her memory wiped and body totally and I mean totally inked with tattoos that all have some sort of meaning and she has total amnesia...good fun action stuff...
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It started off good, lost it's way, found a different path which worked out very well.
Big bang theory is great, so is Modern family.
I'm gonna give Fresh of the boat a try when I'm done with Veep, I think.
The Grinder and Man in the high castle is on my list. Which is getting too long.
I like lighthearted stuff with no zombies etc lol.
I recently worked through Entourage which was entertaining, and now I'm on the silly but funny Brooklyn-99.
The Returned.
In memory of the (recently) late Abe Vigoda, I'd recommend Barney Miller. Available on Crackle http://www.crackle.com/barney-miller/2456623
And speaking of Crackle, Comedians in Cars Drinking Coffee is a web-series from Jerry Seinfeld that can be terribly funny. http://comediansincarsgettingcoffee.com/
Spartacus and Rome, 2 of the greatest shows ever made in my opinion!
Glad it wasnt just me that thought this!
There's quite a few other threads on this, by the way (with some reviews etc which might be more helpful).
I have seen more "boxed-sets" than I can remember now, but the stand outs were Boardwalk Empire, Game of Thrones and The Office (An American Workplace), amongst many, many others.
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The usual suspects
- Breaking Bad
- Game of Thrones
- The Walking Dead
My personal favorites
- Homeland
- Helix
- Boardwalk Empire
I'd like to add
Dr Foster (and not just for Suranne Jones)
The Missing
The Fall
The Shield
Making a Murderer (as many others have)
The Wire
Alaskan Bush People (it's hilarious! and my 8 & 9yr old are addicted)
Clean forgot about Brooklyn 99, great show. So good I've the theme tune as my ringtone.
+1 for Man in the High Castle. Acting is a bit wooden at times but some great characters and good performances. Plus the whole concept is quite different.
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Ray Donovan and Banshee. Both well worth a look and some of my favourites around
I forgot to mention Fargo - 1st Series was very good, and supposedly the second is as well.
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And another.....
True Detective. 1st season was very good, not so sure about the 2nd.
Lot's of great series mentioned in this thread.
I've heard great things about both Fargo and True Detective as well.
Strikeback is worth a watch if you like a load of action (and action)! 1st series was excellent and then Cinemax (i think) got involved for following series. A bit far fetched in places but an entertaining watch nonetheless.
To add to above, it's finished now and ran for 5 seasons.
Strikeback is good for watching one-two episode per week, IMO, otherwise the near constant gun fire gets to you
The Wire every time. Keep the subtitles handy though!
I thought the 1st season of fargo was excellent but couldn't get involved in the 2nd for some reason
Another Homeland fan here, and one that agrees with previous opinions on how each series has fared. The initial "is he / isn't he" and the storyline behind it was brilliantly inventive.
Gotham has me gripped, Deutschland 83 is going well, really looking forward to the new series of Supervet and The Undateables and First Dates can both be entertainingly touching. I don't know when the second series is due however Fortitude was very clever, I just hope they don't screw it up. X-Files in February has better be worth the wait!
Mr Robot
I stumbled across this last month, its like fight club for computer geeks. Very good showMr Robot
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